Piedmontian Provence

Piedmontian Provence was a small province of Sardinia-Piedmont, located in what is now the Provence region of southern France. It consisted solely of the major port city of Nice, a commune that had placed itself under the protection of the Duchy of Savoy in 1388. From 1792 to 1814, the French First Republic and First French Empire annexed Nice, but the region was restored to Sardinia-Piedmont as a part of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Piedmontian Provence and Savoy were both ceded to France in 1860 under the Treaty of Turin.